Gods and Fighting Men

Red Ridge

There was another young man came and served Finn for a while; out of Connacht
he came, and he was very daring, and the Red Ridge was the name they gave him.
And he all but went from Finn one time, because of his wages that were too long
in coming to him. And the three battalions of the Fianna came trying to quiet
him, but he would not stay for them. And at the last Finn himself came, for it
is a power he had, if he would make but three verses he would quiet any one. And
it is what he said: "Daring Red Ridge," he said, "good in battle, if you go from
me to-day with your great name it is a good parting for us. But once at Rath Cro,"
he said, "I gave you three times fifty ounces in the one day; and at Carn Ruidhe
I gave you the full of my cup of silver and of yellow gold. And do you
remember," he said, "the time we were at Rath Ai, when we found the two women,
and when we ate nuts, myself and yourself were there together."
And after that the young man said no more about going from.
And another helper came to Finn one time he was fighting at a ford, and all
his weapons were used or worn with the dint of the fight. And there came to him
a daughter of Mongan of the Sidhe, bringing him a flat stone having a chain of
gold to it. And he took the stone and did great deeds with it. And after
the fight the stone fell into the ford, that got the name of Ath Liag Finn.
And that stone will never be found till the Woman of the Waves will find it,
and will bring it to land on a Sunday morning; and on that day seven years the
world will come to an end.